I am V V STOKED to join the writer’s room for this new Netflix show, based on the beautiful memoir, MAID, about a single Mom who kept herself and her daughter alive by cleaning houses …
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MAID!
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Bekah’s Book Club
At the urging of three separate friends, I started reading this INDEED VERY PAINFULLY BEAUTIFUL book, about the coming of age of a mysterious girl who lives in the Marsh on the North Carolina coast. …
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Claudia Moment
The yellow of my nails matches the yellow of my notebook paper which gives me a thrill that can only be described as a CLAUDIA MOMENT, which is when colors sync in a bright way …
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ACTUAL SPARKS JOY
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book review
I have a lot of gifts, like roasting nuts, making people feel comfortable, and talking about nuts to make people feel uncomfortable. Describing WHY I enjoyed something, be it a book or a play or …
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Martha
Today, on Using Other’s People’s Writing to Stand in for my Own, or, Live Every Day like you’re in a really good Sophomore English Class: I’m finally reading The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s memoir about …
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love what is present
Today, on I read a book and it changed my life or at least I had a moment in which I felt a change and you know, we’ll see if it actually lasts, but please …
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and other lies I’ve loved
I’m only a few chapters into this memoir but I’m already struck by it. Kate Bowler, a 35 year old divinity professor and mother and wife, was raised in a strong Christian family, spent her …
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preferred classic literature
Leo Tolstoy WHO? After years of trying to read dense books before bed, I hereby, going forward, only ever want to read seasonal romance novels about beautiful round british baker women who’s bakeries hit crisises …
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books on books on books
I have procured Harold Bloom’s ‘How to Read and Why’ for reading purposes, because I have a feeling that while I read, I’m don’t read well enough / retain enough of it (probably because I’m …